IRWIN — A Western Pennsylvania school district is taking precautions against the spread of hand, foot and mouth disease because two football players have been diagnosed with the virus.

Despite its name, it is not related to hoof and mouth disease which affects cattle and cannot be spread to humans.

Randy Rovesti, the Norwin School District's director of student activities, said the virus is no worse than having a cold. The virus causes a fever and blister-like sores in the mouth or, sometimes, a skin rash.

INDIANA — A western Pennsylvania college professor is charged with child endangerment after police say she failed to tell firefighters her teenage daughter was inside her burning apartment.Police in Indiana charged Mavis Pararai after she allegedly told firefighters she was the only person home when emergency workers responded to a call at her home early Saturday morning.But firefighters who went inside found Pararai's 15-year-old daughter asleep in a bedroom.